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couple places itself under the authority of the Conservative bet din. This removes one of the objections to the document of Epstein (Rabbinic Manual pp 37 f) The effort of the Conservative Rabbinical Assembly was made under the guidance of Joshua Liebermann and has been incorporated in the ketubot used by the Conservative movement.
A more radical suggestion was made by the French Ortho dox rabbinate in 1907, which urged that all ketubot include a clause that indicated that a civil divorce decree would annul the marriage and the woman would be released and subsequently free to marry according to Jewish ritual. This suggestion was attacked by Orthodox authorities in other lands(A. H. Freiman, Seder Kiddushin Venisuin, p. 390).
These efforts have tried to deal with the problem of agunot but largely to no avail, as the complications have usually led women who sought a second marriage to use a Reform rabbi who recognized a civil divorce or a“Document of Separation”(W. Jacob(ed.) American Reform Responsa#162) or to turn to the civil authorities. We should continue to perform such marriages of agunot as a way of helping the Jewish community with a difficult problem. We recognize civil divorce as sufficient. Our solution is within the range of those proposed by some Orthodox authorities